On the Edge, Above the Vale

REVIEW BY RP Cotswold Archaeology’s latest monograph (free to download at www.cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/publication) covers excavations that took place ahead of the construction of the Collection Management Facility, Science, and Innovation Park at the former site of RAF Wroughton between 2018 and 2020. The report is well-organised, with chapters offering a chronological exploration of the excavation results (from Mesolithic to modern), followed by a neatly categorised summary and catalogue of the artefacts. The report then looks at the environmental evidence and scientific analyses, before concluding with an in-depth discussion of the entire multi-period site. The site itself is fas